1. Measurement of vena contracta width for the assessment of severity of mitral stenosis

   • Tae-Ho Park
   • Min-Ah Park
   • Young-Seoub Hong

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 September 2006 Pages: 273 - 277

2. Diagnostic value of 16-slice multidetector computed tomography in symptomatic patients with suspected significant obstructive coronary artery disease

   • Nihan Erdogan
   • Nihal Akar
   • Sinan Aydogdu

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 September 2006 Pages: 278 - 284

3. The relationship between endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphism (T-786 C) and coronary artery disease in the Turkish population

   • Burak Tangurek
   • Nihat Ozer
   • Aydin Cagil

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 September 2006 Pages: 285 - 290

4. The effect of early statin treatment on inflammation and cardiac events in acute coronary syndrome patients with low-density lipoprotein cholesterol

   • Mehmet Kanadaşı
   • Murat Çaylı
   • Mustafa Şan

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 September 2006 Pages: 291 - 297

5. Single administration of cerivastatin, an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, improves the coronary flow velocity reserve: a transthoracic Doppler echocardiography study

   • Atsushi Takagi
   • Yukio Tsurumi
   • Hiroshi Kasanuki

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 September 2006 Pages: 298 - 301

6. Inflammatory markers in a 2-year follow-up of coronary artery disease

   • Katarzyna Mizia-Stec
   • Zbigniew Gąsior
   • Pawelł Kumor

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 September 2006 Pages: 302 - 308

7. The use of human heart-type fatty acid-binding protein as an early diagnostic biochemical marker of myocardial necrosis in patients with acute coronary syndrome, and its comparison with troponin-T and creatine kinase–myocardial band

   • Ozcan Ruzgar
   • Ahmet Kaya Bilge
   • Mehmet Meric

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 September 2006 Pages: 309 - 314

8. Hyperplasia suppressor gene associates with smooth muscle α-actin and is involved in the redifferentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells

   • Guang-Jian Jiang
   • Mei Han
   • Jin-Kun Wen

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 29 September 2006 Pages: 315 - 320

9. Surgical treatment of coronary-to-pulmonary fistula: how and when?

   • Francesco Onorati
   • Pasquale Mastroroberto
   • Attilio Renzulli

   CASE REPORT 29 September 2006 Pages: 321 - 324

10. Confirmation of Chagas' cardiomyopathy following heart transplantation

    • Binh An P. Phan
    • Michael A. Laflamme
    • Wayne C. Levy

    CASE REPORT 29 September 2006 Pages: 325 - 327

11. Giant extracardiac unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm in a patient with left ventricular dysfunction

    • Levent Yilik
    • Banu Lafcı
    • Ali Gürbüz

    CASE REPORT 29 September 2006 Pages: 328 - 330

12. A case of prosthetic mitral valve Brucella endocarditis complicated with torsades de pointes

    • Nurten Sayar
    • Sait Terzi
    • Kemal Yesilcimen

    CASE REPORT 29 September 2006 Pages: 331 - 333

13. Serial assessment of the development of inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm from ordinary atherosclerotic abdominal aortic aneurysm using multidetector-row computed tomographic angiography

    • Hiromitsu Hayashi
    • Fumitaka Hidaka
    • Masami Ochi

    GRAPHIC REPORT 29 September 2006 Pages: 334 - 337